Simple monster craft: Having a monsters’ ball!

This month, for our Bostik Bloggers challenge, we have been challenged with creating something along the theme of monsters.

I let the kids loose and here is what we have come up with…a monsters’ ball *sort of*

Materials

Two polystyrene balls

Pipe cleaners

Lolly pop sticks

Wooden pegs and cotton reels

Deco pens

Bostik extra strong glue dots

Bostik White glue

Assorted pom-poms; two sizes

Bubble weave look bands

1. Grab your polystyrene balls, and decide the colour you would like your monster to be. My daughter made a abominable snow king with a crown, so hers was white. My son opted for a blue fierce, but friendly fella ;-). Use the deco pens to paint the polystyrene ball if you need to.

2. You can now let you kids imaginations run wild with the monster’s features. We have a few ideas for you though, of course. For eyes, we have used both the Deco pens and a large and a small pom-pom to make. Glue dots stick the pom-poms on to the ball well. Use the white glue to attach the two pom-poms to each other.

3. Our ideas for feet vary too:

Lollipop sticks; we made two feet by chopping the ends of some larger lollipop sticks. You can then stick them on to your monster with glue dots

Cotton reels; the extra strong glue dots are great for fixing cotton reels to your monster as feet too. We added little black marks to give him toes too.

4. Clearly, the best monster hair is made with pipe cleaners. We have accessorised them by adding a loom band to each, and double wrapping two together to give multi-coloured spiked hair. It’s a look, right?

5. Hands are also made from pipe cleaners too – our adominable snow king has a snowball pom-pom in one of his hands too, naturally. Can you spot it in the picture above?

6. Make the mouths how you like too! We have given one of our monsters a tongue. We painted the end of. Lollipop stick to give this effect. My son decided to draw on his mouth, but you could make some teeth if you wanted too – perhaps with a few white beads.

7. Finally, add anything else you like – they are monsters after all, so they most definitely don’t have to conform to anything at all! We have horns made from small wooden pawns/pegs, as well as a crown for our snow king. However, you can do whatever you want to, the monster is yours!

So here you go – our monsters. When we were finished, we took the monsters out in the garden for a bit of a play – our monster’s made from balls, were having a ball! ;-)

About The Author

Helen is a mum to two, social media consultant, website editor and regular guest on Spanners BBC Cambridgeshire radio show. Since giving up being a business analyst when juggling travel, work and kids proved too complicated, she founded KiddyCharts so she could be with her kids, and use those grey cells at the same time. KiddyCharts works with big family brands (including travel) to help promote their services, as well as offering free resources to parents of kids under 10. She's happy to chat on anything parenting. She is also a part-time digital marketing analyst with Channel Mum. She can often be found hanging about on social media, and trying to avoid stepping on the Lego her kids keep leaving lying around.

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Helen Neale

Helen is a mum to two, digital marketer and website editor. She founded KiddyCharts in 2011 to enable her to work from home.

KiddyCharts is passionate about offering kids and parents its resources for FREE. KiddyCharts continues to make this possible because the site works with big family brands to promote relevant products to their audience.

Helen works part-time as a digital marketing analyst with Channel Mum.

Spare time is mostly spent trying to avoid stepping on the Lego her kids keep leaving lying around.